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Moms Away!Recently, Phil and Marjorie lost their daughter, Laura, whose loves were Florida, Siesta Key, and the gulf. Shortly before her untimely demise, she asked that her remains be cremated and spread over the Gulf of Mexico, a few miles out from Siesta Key.

As her children, Chris and Aaron, were flying high above the gulf, in accordance to her wishes, they turned the urn with their mother's ashes upside down, and shouted, "Moms...

Although Dennis E. Hensley has earned nation esteem for creating a premiere university-level program in professional writing, he has diligently maintained a vibrant career as a book author, magazine columnist, reviewer and essayist, and investigative journalist. Jokingly, Hensley explains, "I don't want my college students to say their professor used to be a successful writer."

Hensley's newest book, number 54, is Jesus in the 9 to 5 (AMG Publishers), which has met with immediate success...

If you're a football fan (and probably even if you aren't), you are aware that we're closing in on the Super Bowl. This year's event is unique in that it is the first Super Bowl held in an outdoor, cold-weather site — New Jersey, to be specific. However, the 2014 game shares many similarities to past Super Bowls in terms of what it took for the two teams to arrive at this point. And some of these same characteristics apply to successful investors.

During the London premiere of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela's daughters, Zindzi and Zenai, got the news that their father had passed away. The rest of the audience, however, was not told until after the credits. It seems weirdly cinematic, but fitting, that the film based on Mandela's autobiography of the same title should have such an epic, if sad, premiere. I only wish that the film itself had more clearly captured the complicated journey that was Mandela's life.

TANGIBLE: Making God Known Through Deeds of Mercy and Words of Faithby Chris SicksNavPress, 9-781-612914411PB, 160 pages$12.99

This is essentially a Christian self-help book. The author discusses the apologetics of mercy, stressing the necessity of both word and deed ministry and giving examples of how each may be applied. Special attention is shown to both Old and New Testament examples (the saving of |Isaac to the woman caught in adultery). Questions for discussion and reflection are also...

Ten years before 9-11 the world witnessed an historic event of a different kind when the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union fell. Unlike 9-11, the fall of the oppressive Communist regime involved very little loss of life as millions of people filled the streets of Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Bucharest and other major cities in Eastern Europe. Within days of the uprisings once invincible tyrants either fled for their lives or met their doom. Young Germans in Berlin beat down the Berlin Wall with...